Entertainer briefs for Thursday, January 22, 2004

Museum wants blood, offers free pass

The Miracle of America Museum is sponsoring a Red Cross Blood
Drive on Tuesday from noon to 5 p.m.

All blood donors will receive a free pass to enjoy the museum,
which has added several items to its Vintage Red Cross exhibition,
in in the same room as the drawing.

The museum is at 58176 U.S. Highway 93 in Polson. For
information, call 883-6804.

Seeley winter festival begins Friday

Seeley Lake's Winterfest begins Friday with a parade and a
bonfire, and continues over the next two weeks with an arts and
craft show, concerts, snow sculpture exhibit throughout town, dog
and crosscountry ski races, and more.

The schedule is:

Friday, Jan. 23

6:30 p.m. - Lighted Parade on Highway 83.

Bonfire after at the Filling Station

Saturday, Jan. 24

10 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Arts and crafts fair, Seeley Lake Elementary
School; dessertfest with raffle and auction at Seeley Lake
Community Hall. Tickets for dessertfest are $12.50 in advance, $15
at the door, available from Chamber board members.

Young opera singers strut their stuff

On Friday, Jan. 23, young singers from the University of Montana
Department of Music will sing operatic arias during an evening of
music.

The CIAO Awards (Career Incentive for Aspiring Opera singers)
competition begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall in the
Music Building on the University of Montana campus. Admission is
free and open to the public, though donations are accepted at the
door.

The CIAO awards, established by doctors Catherine Capps and Tom
Rickard of Missoula, are meant to help young singers with the
expenses of the next steps in their careers.

Among the judges for this year's competition are Dennis Dunn,
governor of the Northwest Region of the Metropolitan Opera Council
Auditions, and Jon Harney, a member of the music faculty of MSU in
Bozeman.

These singers are among those who will be featured in Mozart's
"The Magic Flute" later this spring, in a production done
cooperatively between the Department of Music and the Missoula
Children's Theater on April 15-18.

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